“Diane Sawyer” on The Daily Caller

New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie took another shot at his state’s teachers today by describing their union leaders as “political thugs.” (more)

Last night’s TV news shows produced a calm and relatively balanced treatment of the budget battle for their roughly 16 million viewers. That’s important for Republicans, because they’ve got to win support from the roughly one in six viewers who think both parties deserve equal blame for the conflict. (more)

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “ABC World News,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed in an exclusive interview with host Diane Sawyer that Muammar Gaddafi is flirting with departing Libya. However, she wouldn’t confirm the death of Gaddafi’s son, which had been reported by some foreign media. (more)

More than four years after leaving office, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is arguing the war in Iraq was worthwhile, and says he’s not sorry sorry about the decisions he made there and in Afghanistan, reports ABC News. (more)

For about twenty minutes on Jan. 8, astronaut Mark Kelly thought his wife Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords had died. (more)

Over the weekend, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was upgraded from “critical condition” to “serious condition.” More good news came from Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelley, who recently spoke about the amazing progress the congresswoman has made since she was shot in the head by accused gunman Jared Loughner on Jan. 8. (more)

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — ABC’s Diane Sawyer will air the first television interview with astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of shooting victim Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. (more)

One wouldn’t normally associate heavy snowfall with global warming, but according ABC News, it’s time to consider that causality. (more)

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the ball fell in New York’s Times Square and the holiday season this year ended without another terror attack — or attempted attack — on our homeland. You’ll recall that on Christmas Day 2009, the notorious “underwear bomber” tried to blow up his jet over Detroit. Young Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen, wanted to take down his Northwest Airlines flight right over Detroit’s airport. Had he succeeded in detonating his BVDs, his victims would not only have been the 288 passengers and crew he was flying with, but doubtless hundreds or thousands on the ground. (more)

Via Mediaite, it appears Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano is keeping a tight ship on the security front. She even apparently throws in a day off for “thousands of people [who] are working 24/7, 364 days a year to keep the American people safe.” Or maybe she just forgot how many days are in a year. (more)

Diane Sawyer has been berating her “ABC World News” producers for repeatedly sending her to the wrong continent for breaking news, a network source said. (more)

Following the ABC news division cutbacks, David Westin is taking one last journey before he departs as news president at year’s end — with Diane Sawyer on her three-day trip to China to report on the country’s economic growth, returning Wednesday. (more)

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to have to be dynamited out of the leadership of her party. (more)

In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with 53 percent of the popular vote. He was the first Democrat to receive over 50 percent since FDR in 1932. In addition, his coattails gave his party control over both houses of Congress. (more)

House Republicans Thursday reacted strongly against Rep. Michele Bachmann’s decision to run for a top leadership post in the new majority, looking to nip in the bud any chance that she might attract support from the substantially large group of incoming freshman lawmakers. (more)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who saw her powerful position taken from her in Tuesday’s landslide election, was adamant the day after Democrats lost 60 seats in the House that the results were not a rejection of the agenda pursued by President Obama and herself. (more)

It was bound to happen, even to a sweet gal like Eva Mendes. Fashion plate, perpetual romantic lead and, let’s face it, one of our tastier slices of gratuitous cheesecake — even she has succumbed to the lure of the celebrity sex tape. (more)

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking. (more)

The 78-year-old director of such classic films as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “The Graduate,” “Carnal Knowledge,” “Working Girl,” and “The Birdcage,” will receive the 38th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award later this month. (more)

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